Projects

• Documentaries
• Feature Films

DOCUMENTARIES

In Production | In Development | Completed Projects

In Production

PLAN B - A two-hour special for Journey to Planet Earth that investigates new ways of understanding and coping with global environmental issues. Featuring world-renowned environmentalist Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute.

In Development

• The Summer of 1787 - -- Based on the recent best-selling book by David O. Stewart, The Summer of 1787 is a eight-hour mini-series dramatizing the remarkable events – and still more remarkable people – involved in the creation of the world's first constitutional democracy. 

• State of the Planet's Cities -- A one-hour special for Journey To Planet Earth that investigates the environmental, political, and economic issues associated with the new reality that for the first time the urban population of our planet outnumbers those living in rural areas. 

• State of the Planet's Fresh Water - A one-hour special for Journey To Planet Earth that looks at the growing problem of water scarcity and its link to climate change. 

• Sacred Places: Religion, Science, and the Environment - A new way of looking at the delicate relationship between religion, the environment, and the stewardship of the world's sacred places.

• Finding Ruby Springs - A wildlife adventure featuring the struggle of Sockeye salmon to escape extinction in the natural world. 

• Secrets Of The Silk Road — A 40 minute IMAX drama that will be shot on location in the most remote parts of China. The show is designed to give international audiences of all ages a once in a life-time experience: a chance to share the thrill of discovering the extraordinary physical beauty of a little known region while celebrating its rich human diversity as expressed in its art, music, customs and rituals. (Produced in association with the the China Film Co-Production Company.)
  
  
• Treasures Of China — a two-hour television special shot concurrently with the filming of the Silk Road IMAX show. Focuses on China's ethnic and religious history and features the country's most famous cultural sites. Locations include Shanghai, Beijing, Xian and the remote western provinces of China.
  
  
• Faces Of Man — a continuing series of one-hour shows designed to celebrate the diverse cultural identities of nations throughout the world. Each episode will focus on a different country and will be told through the eyes of writers, artisans, poets, musicians, dancers, photographers, anthropologists, historians and architects.
  
  
• Pilgrim's Way — an open-ended series focusing on the great religious pilgrimages of the world. Each episode will feature one sacred journey, looking through the multiple lenses of history, religion, anthropology and music. Sites include Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, Canterbury, Mecca and the Ganges River.
  
  
• Hoops — a four-hour mini-series covering the game from its inception to its globetrotting present. In so doing the series will also explain the unique place this game occupies in the pursuit of the American dream, not only in the United States but throughout the world.
  
  
• Secrets Of The 20th Century — a continuing series of one-hour television shows that will focus on some stories that may have been whispered about for decades; while other stories may have already entered our national awareness, shaped our consciousness, and affected the course of Western Civilization. Episodes include investigative stories about the Bay of Pigs, the Pentagon Papers, the Hollywood Ten, the Iran-Contra Affair, the Payola and Quiz Scandals and Libido-Gate: JFK, RFK, Gary Hart and Clinton.
  
  

Selected Completed Productions

• Children Of Poverty — A NBC Special News Report featuring four devastating stories of children living in poverty.
  
  
• Streets Of Sorrow — Produced for NBC, the show focuses on the work of a homicide support group that helps people cope with the violent death of a family member.
  
  
• Earth Summit Pledge — Commissioned by the United Nations to open the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, the film uses a dramatic tapestry of images shot on location around the world to show the complex relationship between the environment and development.
  
  
• Future Conditional: Global Climate Change — Produced for PBS and photographed throughout the world, the show presents an accurate and balanced overview of the "greenhouse" problem.
  
  
• Protecting The Ozone Layer: A Search For Solutions — Syndicated on commercial television, it dramatically tells the story of the depletion of the Earth's delicate ozone layer.
  
  
• The First Universal Nation — Produced for PBS, the documentary features journalist Ben Wattenberg and focuses on the spread of American political and popular culture around the world.
  
  
• Women At Work — A series of five after-school dramas for public television, that explores the problems facing women in the workplace.
  
  
• The World Of Cooking — An eleven-part PBS cooking series featuring the cooking and cultures of Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and The Netherlands. Companion books were published by MacMillan and the BBC.
  
  
• The Voice Of Hope — A prime-time television documentary about the international medical relief work of Project HOPE. The film was shot on location in China, Swaziland, Brazil, and Grenada.

FEATURE FILMS

Family Business — This highly acclaimed American Playhouse production was based on the off-Broadway hit of the same name. Starring Milton Berle, it was listed as one of the top ten television features of the year by The Hollywood Reporter, TV Guide, and many major newspaper film critics.

The Imagemaker — A thriller exposing, as Variety put it, "The incestuous relationship between the press and politicos in the nation's capitol." Critic Archer Winsten in the New York Post said: "Director-writer Hal Weiner has fashioned a hard-hitting, real melodrama of news-making maneuvers in the nation's capital." The film starred Michael Nouri, Jerry Orbach, Jessica Harper, and Farley Granger.

K2 — Based on the Tony award-winning Broadway play, the film is a mountain climbing drama set against the staggering backdrop of the world's second tallest mountain in Pakistan. The $16 million production was released by Paramount Pictures.

In Development

• Katrina's Dolphins - A family drama centering around the true story of eight dolphins washed out to sea during Hurricane Katrina. (Treatment)
  
  
• Decker — An action/adventure about the CIA's involvement in the drug trade. (Script)
  
  
• The Jerusalem Syndrome — A holocaust drama involving the murder of two Russian Orthodox nuns living in Jerusalem. (Script) 
  
  
• Shadows — A thriller about a high-powered New York literary agent who becomes involved in a series of murders. (Script) 
  
  
• Crackerville — An extraordinary story that chronicles Terrence Johnson's passage from the inner city streets of Washington to a 7-by-9-foot windowless cell in a prison they called "Crackerville." (Treatment) 
  
  
• Slaughter In The Mountains — Based on the true story of the largest sting operation of illegal bear poaching in the United States. (Treatment) 
  
  
• The Doomsday Option — A comedy about how an inept school teacher becomes president of the United States and saves the country from an extremist take-over. (Treatment)